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The following definition will be used: Potential for the financial obligations of a contract not to be
fulfilled.
• The contract should protect the lender without discouraging the borrower.
• The contract will include covenants that attempt to minimize the potential for the
risk to change such as use of assets or changing the capital structure
• Most rely on the dual system of the experience of the lending officer and the checklist called
the 5 C’s
• In this section of the lecture we will examine the more common way to analyse credit risk:
1. Expert systems
3. Econometric methods
4. Hybrid systems